Topic: UPS

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AI-powered Dexterity valued at $1.65 billion

March 14, 2025 · Closing $95M in its latest funding round, Dexterity CEO Samir Menon said the company will use its latest funding to continue R&D of its technologies and hire additional employees.

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MODEX 2024: Monday recap of robotics news and notes from Atlanta

March 11, 2024 · MODEX 2024 opened with a full slate of product announcements, enhancements, partnerships and more from a jam-packed Georgia World Congress Center.

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MODEX 2024: Robotics, supply chain and logistics leaders descend on Atlanta

March 6, 2024 · MODEX 2024 will bring over 45,000 professionals in the robotics, supply chain, material handling, logistics and transportation space to Atlanta in March 2024.

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UPS Cuts the Ribbon On State-of-the-art UPS Velocity Facility

November 24, 2023 · Smart automation, ML/AI transform customer experience and service.

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UPS Uses Robots and AI to Strengthen Network Capabilities, Enhance the Employee Experience

September 28, 2023 · UPS is working with robotics suppliers including Fortna, Geek+, Locus Robotics, Pickle Robot, and more to improve working conditions and increase productivity.

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International Federation of Robotics Roundtable at Automate to Focus on Robots Transforming the Economy

June 7, 2022 · The International Federation of Robotics is sponsoring a panel at Automate in Detroit on how automation is helping North American industry adapt to numerous challenges.

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Waymo Via Expands UPS Partnership to Autonomous Freight With Class 8 Trucks

November 24, 2021 · Waymo Via, the delivery service of Alphabet's autonomous vehicle unit, is expanding its partnership with UPS from self-driving vans to Class 8 trucks for freight.

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UPS Ecommerce Fulfillment Strategy for Creating the Supply Chain Warehouse of the Future

July 22, 2020 · UPS, one of the world's largest parcel delivery services, is redesigning its fulfillment processes to meet new challenges, inside and outside the warehouse.

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UPS takes a look at the future of e-commerce fulfillment

July 15, 2020 · One of the world’s largest parcel delivery services is redesigning its fulfillment processes to meet new challenges, inside and outside the warehouse.

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UPS Flight Forward and CVS to Launch Residential Drone Delivery Service in Florida

April 27, 2020 · UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward will use drones to deliver prescription medicines from a CVS pharmacy to The Villages, Florida for the largest U.S. retirement community home, to more than 135,000 residents.

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UPS rolls out new WES offering

April 24, 2020 · Company officials said that this new WES, which was developed by UPS and Softeon, a provider of supply chain technology services, is geared towards enabling faster intake and fulfillment for customers, notably those with fluctuating order patterns, are able to get products on time.

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UPS and CVS herald initial drone deliveries of prescription medicine

November 5, 2019 · Roughly one month after receiving the United States government’s first full Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Part 135 Standard certification, which is required to operate a drone airline, Atlanta-based transportation and logistics bellwether UPS said today that, in a partnership with CVS Health Corporation, a subsidiary of CVS Pharmacy, it has competed the first revenue-generating drone delivery of a medical prescription from a CVS pharmacy directly to a consumer’s home on November 1.

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UPS Flight Forward Achieves FAA’s First Full Approval for Drone Airline Deliveries

October 2, 2019 · The Federal Aviation Administration last week granted approval for UPS to operate unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver parcels on university and hospital campuses.

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UPS receives FAA Part 135 Standard certification to operate drones

October 1, 2019 · Atlanta-based transportation and logistics bellwether UPS said it received the United States government’s first full Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Part 135 Standard certification, which is required to operate a drone airline.

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UPS Partners with Matternet to Transport Medical Samples via Drone across Hospital System

March 27, 2019 · First FAA sanctioned use of a drone for routine revenue flights involving the transport of a product under a contractual delivery agreement.

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UPS Drone Meets UPS Delivery Truck

February 22, 2017 · UPS has announced that it has successfully tested a drone that launches from the top of a UPS package car, autonomously delivers a package to a home and then returns to the vehicle while the delivery driver continues along the route to make a separate delivery.

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